“The real backbreaker is the long-term costs — a pension that is underfunded, the health care package that is getting more expensive — and the city is on the hook for all of it" (former Mackinac Center Director of Labor Policy Paul Kersey)....more

What the fight over Public Act 4 is really all about. Government unions remain as a permanent, taxpayer-funded lobby for big government. The unions claim that PA 4 is an affront to democratic self government, but their protests ring false